I'm changing the status to "Won't Fix", as this is not something that
will be fixed in the Ubuntu chromium package.
web.whatsapp.com used to work fine with chromium in Ubuntu, and they
made a server-side change to detect the chromium UA string and block it.
This is unfortunate.
The chromium in Ubuntu UA string hasn't changed in several years, it is
not going to be updated to support just one capricious website.
For users affected, it was suggested that using an extension to spoof
the UA string (such as "User-Agent Switcher for Chrome") would work
around the problem.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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Buggy WhatsApp misdetects Chromium with Ubuntu's patched useragent
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